Mary 'Polly' Gott

1803 - 1885  (81 years)

• Name	Mary 'Polly' Gott  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	26 Oct 1803	Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Census	1860	Long Island Plantation, Long Island, Hancock, Maine, USA   [3]
  	Mary and Joseph Dawes
  FSID	LKSX-TV5
  Death	22 Mar 1885	Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  Burial	Head of the Harbor Cemetery, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA   [1]
  		Cemetery-Head of the Harbor (Tremont ME)
  Person ID	I14232	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Gott,   b. 21 Apr 1773, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA d. 11 Apr 1824, Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 50 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Lydia Morgan,   b. 1780, Maine, USA
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	29 Nov 1796	Mount Desert, Hancock, Maine, USA   [4, 5]
  Family ID	F6098	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joseph Dawes,   b. 5 Mar 1796, Hancock County, Maine, USA d. 5 Aug 1885, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	5 Jul 1825  [5]
  Children	1. David Dawes,   b. Aug 1836, Maine, USA d. 12 Jun 1920, Swans Island, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 83 years)  [natural]   2. Samuel Dawes,   b. Abt 1842, Maine, USA d. 15 Jun 1893, Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA (Age 51 years)  [natural]   3. Melinda Ellen Dawes,   b. 1846, Maine, USA d. Aft 1920 (Age > 75 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F5006	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 26 Oct 1803 - Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA Death - 22 Mar 1885 - Tremont, Hancock, Maine, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Headstones

  Cemetery-Head of the Harbor (Tremont ME)

  
  

• Sources

  [S515] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S1746] Ancestry.com, Maine, U.S., Death Records, 1761-1922, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; 1892-1907 Vital Records; Roll Number: 14. Maine, U.S., Death Records, 1761-1922 [S100] Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M653; Residence Date: 1860; Home in 1860: Long Island Plantation, Hancock, Maine; Roll: M653_438; Page: 303; Family History. 1860 United States Federal Census [S22] Pierce, William MacBeth, Old Hancock County Families, (Name: Hancock County Publishing; Location: Ellsworth, Maine; Date: 1933;), Gott - Mt. Desert, Swan's Island, Pages 26 - 29. Charles Gott came to America with Gov. John Endicott, and his company of Puritans, sailing from Weymouth, England, in the "Abigail", June 20, 1628, and arriving at Naumkeag (Salem, Mass.,) Sept. 6, 1628. He died in Wenham, Mass., Jan. 15, 1668. [S528] William Otis Sawtelle, Daniel Gott - Mount Desert Pioneer, (Date: 1926;), Daniel Gott - Mount Desert Pioneer: His Ancestors and Descendants, 929.2 G6852. NOTES ON THE GOTTS OF NEW ENGLAND The name of Gott is of Old English origin, meaning a water way or water course, to be recognized in our word gutter and gut, meaning a channel of restricted limits. As early as the fourteenth century Gotts appear in the English records and later as residents in Yorkshire and in Kent. A diligent search among the parish records of Old England has failed to locate the antecedents of Charles Gott and his wife Sarah, first of the name in New England. In the publications of the British Records Society the name is frequently met with and also in the numerous English county genealogies; but no mention of any Charles Gott of whom Hubbard thus speaks: “With Mr. Endicot in the year 1628 came Mr. Gotte, Mr. Brokenbury, Mr. Davenport and others who being added to Capt. Trask’s preparations for a new colony that was coming over.” The Captain Trask mentioned by the New England historian was Captain William Trask and it is interesting to note this early mention of two family names well known in the Mount Desert region. As the history of any region is contained in family records I make no apology in presenting these papers relating to the Gotts of New England who spread from Salem, Massachusetts, to Connecticut and to New York; to various parts of Maine, especially Mount Desert where many of them were among the first permanent settlers. La Petite Plaisance of Champlain is our Gott’s Island of today; a name for which the lack of euphony is more than compensated by its significance in the pioneer history of Mount Desert.